Needle-setting device for sewing-machines.



n5. s7|,a99. Patnted Apr. 9, I901;

A. mum/mu. v

NEEDLE SETTING DEVICE FOR SEWING MACHINES.

(Ajaplication filed Sept. 19, 1900.)

(No model.)

in: imam; mm m. macro-HMO WASMINGYON, o. c,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AUGUSTE H-ILLMANN, OF GREVISMIIHLEN, GERMANY.

NEEDLE-SETTING DEVICE FOR SEWING-MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 671,699, dated April 9, 1901.

Application filed $eptember 18, 1900. Serial No. 30,406. N model-l T0 aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, AUGUSTE HILLMANN, a subject of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg- Sohwerin, residing at Grevismiihlen, in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Sch Werin, GermanEmpire, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Needle-Setting Devices for Sewing-Machines, (for which I have applied for a patent in Germany, H 24,095, VII/52, dated May 21, 1900; in Austria, dated July 26, 1900; in Hungary, No. 10,833, dated July 28, 1900; in France, No. 290,871, dated July 30,1900; in Belgium,No. 119,620, dated July 28, 1900; in England, No. 13,603; dated July 28, 1900, and in Switzerland, No. 24,494, dated July 26, 1900,) of which the following is a specification.

Mypresent invention relatesto an improved device for inserting needles into the needlebars of sewing-machines.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of the device. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan of Fig. 1; and Fig. 4 represents, on a larger scale, the eyelet inclosing the needle when inserting the same into the needle-bar.

The device consists of a handle a, which is made of wire bent into a suitable form, as shown. An angular recess is provided in the free end of this wire, Fig. 4, and this recess is closed by a spring-clamp f. This clampf is held in position on the end of the wire handle by spring-pressure and can be connected to the handle a by a chain or other suitable device to prevent it from being lost. An arm 6 is secured to the end of the handle a. This arm 6 is bent at right angles at the end to form pin d, as shown in Fig. 2.

In operation the needle is placed in the recess b of the wire handle on, the clamp is pushed onto the recessed end of the handle, so as to inclose the needle, and the pin d of the arm 6 placed through the eye of the needle, which will then be so securely held that it can be conveniently moved in the manner necessary to insert it into the needle-bar.

In order to detach the device after theneedle is clamped to the needle-bar, the handle is pulled gently away from the needle, so as to remove the spring clamp or cap f. Upon now slightly turning the handle a about its own longitudinal axis the pin d will be removed from the eye of the needle 0 and the device will then be completely detached.

The advantages of my needle-setting device reside, first, in the construction of the eyelet for holding the needle, which consists of an angular recess in the free end of the handle inclosed by a spring clamp or cap, and, secondly, in the arrangement of the pin inserted into the eye of the needle, which pin is so disposed with regard to the handle that it can be removed from the eye by simply turning the handle of the device about its own longitudinal axis.

Having thus described my invention, what I therefore claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a device for inserting needles in the needle-bar of a sewing-machine, the combination of a suitable handle formed at one end With a recess adapted to receive a needle, a removable spring-cap fitting over said recess, and an arm secured to one end of the handle, the opposite end of said arm being bent at right angles to form a pin for entering the needle-eye, all substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. In a needle-inserting device, the combination of a suitable handle, having an angular recess at its end adapted to receive a needle, a removable spring-cap fitting over said recess and an arm secured to the handle and extending therefrom to the recess, and at that point bent at right angles, its free end being adapted to enter the eye of the needle, all substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses.

AUGUSTE HILLMANN.

Witnesses:

FRANZ HILLMANN, i E. H. L. MUMMENHOFF. 

